While many locals are enjoying New Orleans' growing economy and post-K resilience, entire communities still live in fear of violent crime. Last year alone, 193 people were murdered in the GNO, a number that seems incongruent with all of the rhetoric surrounding the city's recovery after The Storm. Shell Shocked: A Documentary about Growing Up in the Murder Capital of America, explores the city's notorious murder rate from the perspective of the children that live with it.

Though it was never the headliner of the New Orleans music community, punk rock has been a player since the beginning of the music form in the late 1970s. Ryan Sparks catches up with a local documentary maker who's attempting to assemble the pieces of the local scene's raucous - and uniquely New Orleans - provenance.

Tonight, Treme Life, a film about New Orleans, premiers. Yes, NoDef knows that there is no shortage of NOLA movies these days, but we think this one is different. Director James Demaria is local, and talented. The Executive Producer is a man named Kermit Ruffins, and we hear he knows a little about the City of Dreams. Plus, the film will debut online at 5 PM tonight, and stay online for 24 hours.

After discussing Part 1 of Spike Lee’s documentary If God Willing and The Creek Don’t Rise with Tuesday morning there seemed to be a common theme.

5 years after the Storm, Spike Lee brought the voice of New Orleans back into the national conversation. When the Levees Broke, the Emmy winning documentary.

The title of CNN's latest Soledad O'Brien documentary "New Orleans Rising" sounded cliche at the best, and exploitive at the worst. however, the film focused on efforts to rebuild Ponchartrain park was surprsiingly touching. On the negative side, little mention was made of the simmring frustration and lack of national support. However, the successes were good to see, and Wendell Pierce is an amazing neighbor! Of note (and question) is the positive portrayal of Commandante Nagin, and BP Claims (and Propaganda Chief) Daryl Willis. Also making a cameo is former mayoral candidate, Troy Henry.

Coming soon to New Orleans, NYC comedienne and femme fatale, Jessica Delfino teams up with photographer, Alex M. Smith, to document the oil spill disaster and relief effort. This project was conceived with the notion that if you want to do something and you feel you can’t, well actually you can.

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